remote sftp & SSH

[wmo]

greetings !... is it possible to connect to a guest (CT or VM) using SFTP i.e. via a remote MacOS terminal outside of the Datacenter ? Basically I am trying to work with the folder structure and files directly using a terminal or IDE or FTP client... without going via the host... same applies for Databases... how would I connect sequelpro for example ?

 

[LnxBil]

Yes, sure ... you need to have a working connection via routing, nat, vpn or else. Simplest idea would be sshfs to mount a remote filesystem hierarchy on your guest.

 

[wmo]

thank you ... sounds good ... where do I start ;-)

I guess I need to download FUSE for macOS... still confused how I would access the CT ... apologies... obviously a rookie

fyi... single ip with NAT and nginx reverse proxy

 

[LnxBil]

thank you ... sounds good ... where do I start ;-)

I guess I need to download FUSE for macOS... still confused how I would access the CT ... apologies... obviously a rookie

fyi... single ip with NAT and nginx reverse proxy

If your container is accessible via SSH, it's a breeze ... just create a incoming port forward to your container like this:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d <public-ip> -p tcp --dport 65432 -j DNAT --to-destination 1.2.3.4:56789

Best would be to have a real VPN to connect through only one exposed port to your internal network and do the rest from there. We use one port to connect to a VM/container which is running a VPN software. This is more secure than just forward everything.

If you have always the same of a special source IP range, i'd suggest to add the -s flag to the above command to have better control over incoming connections.